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...Minute Women, founded in 1949 in Norwalk, Conn., and spearheaded by a Belgian-born sculptress, Suzanne Silvercruys Stevenson (sister of Belgium's Ambassador Baron Robert Silvercruys), had one of its biggest and most active chapters in Houston. The Minute Women insisted that they did not act as a group, rather as "individuals." When they first saw Newsman O'Leary, they tape-recorded the interview, and one ex-member even demanded that an FBI man be present for another interview. O'Leary was asked: "We're 100% pro-American. Are you?" Much of their work was done...
Blondeel holds his LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from the Harvard Law School. In Paris he is associated with the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly, and Ball. He was a fellow of the American-Belgian Foundation in 1948-49, and a Brandeis Research Fellow here during...
Married. Rosemary Turner McMahon, 36, widow of the late Brien McMahon, Democratic U.S. Senator from Connecticut (1945-52) and head of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; and Baron Robert Silvercruys, 59, Belgian Ambassador to the U.S.; he for the first time, she for the second; in a quiet church ceremony; in Washington...
...truth is that the quality Audrey brings to the screen is not dependent on her figure, her face, her accent (which is neither quite British nor quite foreign) or even her talent. Belgian-born (of a Dutch mother and an Anglo-Irish father), she has, like all great actresses from Maude Adams to Greta Garbo, the magic ability to bridge the gap between herself and her audience, and to make her innermost feelings instantly known and shared...
...Communist who, after leaving Audrey's mother, joined Sir Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts (British Union of Fascists). Audrey's earliest companions were her two older half brothers, with whom she spent many hours in tomboy comradeship, climbing trees and racing across the green fields of their Belgian estate. Unlike most little girls, she did not care for dolls. "They never seemed real to me," she says. She preferred instead the company of dogs, cats, rabbits and other animals with as much vitality as herself. In her quiet moments, she would dress up in the make-believe that...